Zigbee 3.0 smart socket plug entity Device ID

[automaker]

i have a HGZB-20A Zigbee 3.0 smart plug socket and it is comes up as a light in the entity domain. My question is how is this determined? Is it by the something the manufacturer sets in the device or does HA decide? I have a Tradfri smart plug socket and this is listed as a switch, both are controlling fans but one is a light and the other is a switch so my inner ADD doesnt like that. I know I can use templates to change the behaviour but i would really like to know how the initial entity device is decided.
TIA

[tube0013]

it determined by what the device. you can overide it in the zha section of your config as described in in this post:

ZHA Zigbee Tested Devices...Please add your device results

What device is it? I mean is it an actual dimmable bulb/switch or is it a remote? And what do you get for the device type? Any chance you can get output of bellows devices ? Currently, unless device type is not a DIMMABLE_LIGHT or similar, zha component will probe by clusters and since there’s on/off cluster present it would treat it as a “on/off switch”, regardless of the presence of the LevelControl cluster. eg this “KingofFan” Zigbee device shown as Device: NWK: 0x4e6b IEEE: 00:22:a3:0…

[automaker]

Thanks, this helps. It led me to this wiki article https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/ which explains it specifically for Zigbee and solution is really just adding 4 lines in the configuration.yml file so nice and easy.

Also explains what you said, device is set by the manufacturer and sometimes they do get it wrong.

zha:
  device_config:
    84:71:27:ff:fe:93:17:24-1:    # format: {ieee}-{endpoint_id}
      type: "switch"              # corrected device type

thanks